I loved Derek.he made it entertaining and it was in its prime when he was on it. How they treated him was awful, I felt. There were better ways of dealing with it.Me and my partner watch an episode or two before bed every night as they're all on freevee.
Personally I don't believe in ghosts and I think a lot of it is deliberate fakery or making a big show of the fact that old houses get creaky however it is good entertainment.
I actually have a lot of time for Derek, if nothing else he was a fantastic showman that made the show what it was. I think if not for him they would have struggled to get past 3 series really. They certainly owe him a lot.
I used to do some work on Most Haunted back in the day. That live was Halloween 2008, The Village of the Damned from Denbigh Asylum. It was so cold and the place had holes all over the roof and at one point it was snowing on the audience. The tesla machine that fired out electric bolts was terrifying! A year later in Morecambe they bumped it up a gear by having the team stand it metal cages while the electric bolts flew towards them. I think the idea behind it was for the spirits to use the energy it generated.I used to love most haunted!! I remember watching one of the lives (I must have been about 10), and it scared the crap out of me!
I think it was in wales? They used some sort of electric/ static machines and it used to make loud noises or something?🫣either way it terrified me
Aww that's great to know about Derek.I used to do some work on Most Haunted back in the day. That live was Halloween 2008, The Village of the Damned from Denbigh Asylum. It was so cold and the place had holes all over the roof and at one point it was snowing on the audience. The tesla machine that fired out electric bolts was terrifying! A year later in Morecambe they bumped it up a gear by having the team stand it metal cages while the electric bolts flew towards them. I think the idea behind it was for the spirits to use the energy it generated.
Overall it was a great experience working on the show, a few blips along the way but nothing exciting. In the end they focused too much on quantity over quality. The Morecambe live in 2009 was eight nights long, with four hours to fill each night so it was wearing a bit thin by the end of the show, and Paul Ross declaring "the shortest of short breaks" for about the millionth time got very irritating!
I never worked on the show with Derek Acorah but I worked with him in other projects and he was just a true gentleman. There was one event we were at there would have been an audience of about 500 and he didn't leave that night without speaking to every single person that wanted to see him. He was such a great guy.
I might be misremembering so forgive me if this is a false memory! Wasn't it a thing where some of the staff experienced possession or their energy draining and the like? And if so, was that just a joke amongst ye?But I can't fault them at all with how they were with the fans as well. They would speak to everyone much like Derek did, same with the studio team, Paul, Julian, Lesley and Richard would all come out and speak to the audience during the ad breaks.
Some of the on-screen team and crew would feel suddenly very tired/unwell during the course of the shows, the theory being that it was the spirits doing this, but we had Ciaran, the parapsychologist on the investigations as well who would point out environmental factors which could contribute to it. There was no in joke or anything, it was reported as it happened. If you are working in an environment with uneven floors and poor ventilation, you will eventually start to not feel great and this was just reported as it happened on the show.I might be misremembering so forgive me if this is a false memory! Wasn't it a thing where some of the staff experienced possession or their energy draining and the like? And if so, was that just a joke amongst ye?
There was an episode back in the early days at a nightclub in Manchester where Derek says "I feel we should take a short break" and at the end of the episode there is footage of him having a boogie in the club haha.I like the early episodes where Derek makes a grand appearance before vanishing for a few hours (can only theorise that he'd nipped off for a few drams and fags)
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